Make Ubiquity Work In Thunderbird

Project Name

Make Ubiquity work in Thunderbird.

Project Description

Ubiquity is a cool extensible natural language front-end to Firefox. It could do wonders in Thunderbird as well. Aza Raskin and other Ubiquity hackers are happy to help someone do that with their Ubiquity knowledge, and #maildev will be happy to assist w/ Thunderbird knowledge.

Project Leader(s)

Scott Lunel
Thomas Brown

Contribution Opportunities

- We currently need testers to help test Ubiquity in Thunderbird. Things you NEED:

1. Know how to make a simple text file and copy it into your Thunderbird extensions directory.
2. The latest Thunderbird Trunk: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/

Get a hold of me (Scott) on irc.mozilla.org under the alias slunel. I hang out in #seneca, and #ubiquity. Ask me any questions you may have. I'm totally willing to help everyone get started helping me test the Ubiquity/TB extension.

Project Contributor(s)

- Chris Bishop
For being patient and helpful enough to aid Scott in his quest to compile Firefox and Thunderbird for the first time.

- Jason Tarka
Helping Scott find the location of Ubiquity extensions.

Meetings

• Mozilla Developer Days
• Conference Call 1

Project Details

Will update later. Not sure what we'll be doing for our 0.1 build yet.

Project News

10/08/08

Author: Scott Lunel

- Ubiquity is now popping up in Thunderbird! Sadly commands aren't working properly yet. That's on my next "TODO" list.

10/02/08

Author: Scott Lunel

- Just a quick update on what's going on. Jono, a Mozilla Developer, has taken charge of the project and we're currently working with a larger member base. Our group has been given two tasks. We were told to create our own Thunderbird extension and read the Ubiquity source code to get a complete understanding of the entire project.

- Well, I've managed to accomplish these two things. At this point I feel that the project is heading in a good direction. From what I've seen so far, this is going to be a massive project with many directions to head once Ubiquity is indeed ported over. It's nice to have a group willing to give their all into making this work.

- At this point in time I've managed to get Ubiquity to load into Thunderbird. Not an overly challenging task, but it's showing up in Thunderbird's addons. A simple editing of its overlay and manifest files did the trick. I'm currently working on getting Ubiquity to pop up in Thunderbird, but I've run into a "road block".

- I'll have more news once I make some progress past getting Ubiquity to load in Add-Ons.

09/25/08

Author: Scott Lunel

- Alright not sure where to begin here. I've managed to get Mercurial updating my Firefox and Thunderbird source with little to no problem now. This means I can actually start searching through Firefox and Thunderbird code to determine how exactly Thomas and I are going to go about porting Ubiquity over to Thunderbird.

09/17/08

Author: Scott Lunel

- Created the "Making Ubiquity Work With Thunderbird" page.

Known Ubiquity Bugs

Ubiquity: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453037
DOM Core affecting Ubiquity: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452568
IE Tab Preventing Ubiquity From Regaining "Focus": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452537